HWY 101 Winter Surf Trip 2025

Road trip hunger is different. You haven’t done anything except sit in the car all day. Not exactly burning calories. But you’re hungry. Maybe you’re bored. You’ve already produced three videos to grow the brand, but the surf is staring at you. You can’t eat yet. There’s only an hour of daylight left, and eating before getting in the water is a recipe for not feeling so good. Traditional wisdom says get out of the stove, boil your water, wait 10 minutes for your mediocre, overpriced food to be done. Cascade Alpine is ready when you are. Open the bag, pour water straight out of your Nalgene, seal the bag, suit up, and go make the most of the remaining daylight. Hands too numb from 50-degree water, unable to use a stove? It doesn’t apply in this case. Whether it be the Chicken Fried Rice, Chickpea Masala, or Chicken Tortilla Soup, the most flavorful adventure food with real, fresh ingredients is ready to fuel your stoke as you make your way down the coast on a miracle run of sunny days.

When the surf is the driving force of your trip, you are subjected to conditions. Maybe the tide isn’t right. Maybe the swell you’re looking for is arriving tomorrow, but the wind will only allow it to be good in the morning. Unfortunately, you aren’t in remote Australia with sleeping in the back of an aesthetic 4Runner on open swaths of land. You are staying in a dodgy RV park along the Avenue of Giants, or being blasted by wind north of Point Conception, looking to catch good conditions at Rincon the next morning. One of the biggest groans of car camping is packing up camp. A layer of complexity is added when you have to make breakfast. Again, you’re fortunate to have Cascade Alpine. All you have to do is pack up the car, start your cold soak of the Breakfast Sausage Hash, and as you take one last bite of your breakfast, a waist-high set comes through at Rincon. Your morning hustle (and time saved with Cascade Alpine), has paid off. 

True Cascade Alpine Adventure. Road trip from Corvallis, Oregon, into California through
Crescent City, the Redwoods, Point Reyes, Santa Cruz, Jalama, Rincon, and County Line.
Fueled by Cascade Alpine Freeze Dried Backpacking food, desire for adventure, fun waves, and mostly to keep living the dream.